Email Pamidoc@gmail.com / ephpami@nus.edu.sg

Pami Shrestha has a medical background as dentist, and a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Liverpool. She is a qualitative researcher who has been actively involved in qualitative and mixed method research particularly in studies of Antimicrobial Resistance, Non-Communicable disease, Healthcare collaborations, Healthcare policy and evaluation of Healthcare programmes.

Currently she is the programme manager for The NUS-Lancet Pandemic Readiness, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation (PRIME) Commission. This Commission aims to reimagine how pandemic preparedness, prevention and response are conceptualised and measured in a meaningful way to help prepare for and respond to highly infectious pathogens. The NUS-Lancet PRIME Commission will establish an independent monitoring and evaluation mechanism that monitors and evaluates countries’ preparedness, prevention, and response to pandemics by expanding our conceptualisation of global health security.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

• Qualitative studies
• Healthcare management and policies
• Pandemic preparedness

• Master’s in Public health (MPH), University of Liverpool, UK, 2013
• Bachelors of Dental Sciences (BDS), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka, South India, 2003

• 2023-present: Project manager: The NUS-Lancet PRIME Commission, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
• 2019-present: Research associate: Singapore Population Health Improvement Centre (SPHERiC), Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
• 2016-2019: Research assistant: NUHS-RHSPO Evaluation Team

• Reviewer for the Journal of Migration and Health

• Realist evaluation of a complex integrated care programme: protocol for a mixed methods study. Milawaty Nurjono, Pami Shrestha, Alice Lee, Xin Ya Lim, Farah Shiraz, Shermin Tan, Shing Hei Wong, Kah Mun Foo, Thomas Wee, Sue-Anne Toh, Joanne Yoong, Hubertus Johannes Maria Vrijhoef BMJ Open 2017; 7:e017111. https://doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017111
• Implementation fidelity of a strategy to integrate service delivery: learnings from a transitional care program for individuals with complex needs in Singapore. Milawaty Nurjono, Pami Shrestha, Ian Yi Han Ang, Farah Shiraz, Joanne Su-Yin Yoong, Sue-Anne Ee Shiow Toh and Hubertus Johannes Maria Vrijhoef
  BMC Health Services Research (2019) 19:177 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-3980-x
• Shifting Care from Hospital to Community, A Strategy to Integrate Care in Singapore: Process Evaluation of Implementation Fidelity. Milawaty Nurjono , Pami Shrestha, Ian Yi Han Ang, Farah Shiraz, Ke Xin Eh, Sue-Anne Ee Shiow Toh and Hubertus Johannes Maria Vrijhoef
• Exploring the dimensions of patient experience for community-based care programmes in a multi-ethnic Asian context. Chuan De Foo, Yan Lin Tan, Pami Shrestha, Ke Xin Eh, Ian Yi Han Ang, Milawaty Nurjono, Sue-Anne Toh, Farah Shiraz. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242610
• Framing global discourses on non-communicable diseases: a scoping review. Jin Tan Melisa Mei; Han Emeline; Shrestha Pami; Wu Shishi; Farah Shiraz; et al. BMC Health Services Research; London Vol. 21, (2021): 1-14. DOI:10.1186/s12913-020-05958-0
• Health systems resilience in managing the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from 28 countries
  Victoria Haldane, Chuan De Foo, Salma M. Abdalla, Anne-Sophie Jung, Melisa Tan, Shishi Wu, Alvin Chua, Monica Verma, Pami Shrestha, Sudhvir Singh, Tristana Perez, See Mieng Tan, Michael Bartos, Shunsuke Mabuchi, Mathias Bonk, Christine McNab, George K. Werner, Raj Panjabi, Anders Nordström & Helena Legido-Quigley. Nature Medicine volume 27, pages964–980 (2021)
• Assessing the role of qualitative factors in pandemic responses. Melisa Mei Jin Tan, Rachel Neill, Victoria Haldane, Anne-Sophie Jung, Chuan De Foo, See Mieng Tan, Pami Shrestha, Monica Verma, Mathias Bonk, Salma M Abdalla, Helena Legido-Quigley. BMJ 2021; 375 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-067512 (Published 29 November 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;375:e067512
• National responses to covid-19: drivers, complexities, and uncertainties in the first year of the pandemic. Anne-Sophie Jung, Victoria Haldane, Rachel Neill, Shishi Wu, Margaret Jamieson, Monica Verma, Melisa Tan, Chuan De Foo, Salma M Abdalla, Pami Shrestha, Alvin Qijia Chua, Nellie Bristol, Sudhvir Singh, Michael Bartos, Shunsuke Mabuchi, Mathias Bonk, Christine McNab, George K Werner, Raj Panjabi, Anders Nordström, head of Helena Legido-Quigley. BMJ 2021; 375 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-068954 (Published 29 November 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;375:e068954
• From response to transformation: how countries can strengthen national pandemic preparedness and response systems. Victoria Haldane, Anne-Sophie Jung, Rachel Neill, Sudhvir Singh, Shishi Wu, Margaret Jamieson, Monica Verma, Melisa Tan, Chuan De Foo, Salma M Abdalla, Pami Shrestha, Alvin Qijia Chua, Anders Nordström, Helena Legido-Quigley. BMJ 2021; 375 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-067507 (Published 29 November 2021)
  Cite this as: BMJ 2021;375:e067507
• From dichotomisation towards intersectionality in addressing covid-19. Anne-Sophie Jung, Victoria Haldane, Rachel Neill, Melisa Mei Jin Tan, Salma M Abdalla, Michael Bartos, Pami Shrestha, Alvin Qijia Chua, Anders Nordström, Helena Legido-Quigley. BMJ 2021; 375 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-067500 (Published 29 November 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;375:e067500
• Integrating tuberculosis and non-communicable diseases care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): A systematic review. Chuan De Foo*, Pami Shrestha*, Leiting Wang, Qianmei Du, Alberto L. García-Basteiro, Abu Saleh Abdullah, Helena Legido-Quigley. PLoS Med 19(1): e1003899. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003899
• Qualitative factors influencing breast and cervical cancer screening in women: A scoping review Author links open overlay panel Jerrald Lau, Pami Shrestha, Janelle Shaina Ng, Grete Jianlin Wong, Helena Legido-Quigley and Ker-Kan Tan
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101816
• Antimicrobial Resistance Research Collaborations in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities to Equitable Partnerships. Pami Shrestha, Shiying He, Helena Legido Quigley Antibiotics 2022, 11, 755. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11060755
• Starfield’s 4Cs of NCD management in primary healthcare: a conceptual framework development from a case study of 19 countries. Foo C, Logan K, Eu E, Erlangga D, Rivillas JC, Kosycarz E, Pholpark A, Ritthisirikul N, Hanvoravongchai P, Putri LP, Marthias T, Schenck M, Benia W, Turk E, Giang KB, Duong DTT, Shrestha S, Esandi ME, Antonietti L, Xiong S, Shrestha P, Tromp J, Legido-Quigley H2025 Jan 29;10(1): e017578. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-017578. PMID: 39880416; PMCID: PMC11781094. BMJ Glob Health.